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Published on: 8/8/2008
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InkCycle President Rick Krska says the company,s new ,grenk, line , environmentally friendly ink cartidge and toner products , will clean up the waste stream so ,there is very little coming out the back end.,View Larger
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"The good news for us has always been that we've kept ink cartridges from going into the landfill after one use, so there has always been a 50 percent savings," Krska said."Now, we're saying we want to clean up the rest of that waste stream so there is very little coming out the back end.We're finding there are many companies out there that care about this."
Krska said he was sitting in a café in California when the idea hit him that he could make a difference with a truly "green" product.
Toner cartridges are mainly plastic, he said, but also contain aluminum and steel parts.Recyclers exist for each part but not for the cartridge as a whole.So his idea was for InkCycle to separate the cartridge components.
"We put these together, so we can take them apart faster than anyone," Krska said.
InkCycle collects and recycles the metal and cardboard boxes.It sends the plastic shells of the cartridges to Systech Environmental Corp., where they are ground into fuel pellets for cement kilns used by LaFarge North America.
"As everybody knows, plastic was originally made from petroleum, so it makes a nice fuel for their process," Krska said.
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Krska said that's exactly why he thinks grenk could end up being 50 percent of InkCycle's business within two years.
"We are now getting companies that have never used an aftermarket toner but are seriously considering grenk because it is green," he said.
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